Name that Australian Book Title

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1. What is the title of the book written by Tim Winton that includes characters Fish and Quick and starts with these words: 'Will you look at us by the river! The whole restless mob of us on spread blankets in the dreamy briny sunshine skylarking and chiacking about ... ? "Cloudstreet" "That Eye, The Sky" "The Drowner" "Shallows"

2. What is the title of an autobiography written by Sally Morgan, who grew up in Perth in the 1950s and 1960s? "A Fortunate Life" "My Place" "My Brilliant Career" "From Strength to Strength"

3. What is the title of the book written by Peter Carey which won the Booker Prize in 2001? It is narrated in the voice of an Australian outlaw. "Oscar and Lucinda" "Ned Kelly" "The True History of the Kelly Gang" "Sister Kate"

4. Which of the following are books were written by Ruth Park, set in the inner city slums of Sydney immediately after World War II? "The Cross" and "Dreamtime Alice" "A Cry in the Jungle Bar" and "The Bay of Contented Men" "Casino" and "The Big Drop" "The Harp in the South" and "Poor Man's Orange"

5. What is the title of a book is written by David Malouf, published in 1975, that is a story of Australian boyhood to manhood and set in the 1940s and 1950s? It uses a first person narrator who is not the subject of the story. "Johnno" "The Ballad of Desmond Kale" "Fly Away Peter" "My Brother Jack"

6. What is the title of a book written by Elizabeth Jolley, that begins with begins with: 'One night, Miss Hester Harper and Katherine are driving home from a celebration...'? There's an accident. Hester tells Katherine to drive slow and 'to get the bar as close as you can to the ....'. "Cabin Fever" "The Sugar Mother" "My Father's Moon" "The Well"

7. What is the title of the book writen by Nobel Prize Winner, Patrick White, that is about a German who sets out to cross the Australian continent on an ill-advised journey? "The Tree of Man" "Riders in a Chariot" "The Solid Mandala" "Voss"

8. Which Bryce Courtney book is about a friendship between Billy O'Shannessy, an ex-lawyer who has been on the booze, and a ten year old boy called Ryan? "The Potato Factory" "April Fool's Day" "Matthew Flinders' Cat" "Jessica"

9. Which book by Morris West (1916-1999) is based on a case history from the autobiography of Carl Jung, a pioneer of modern psychiatry? "The World is Made of Glass" "Lazarus" "The Devil's Advocate" "The Shoes of the Fisherman"

10. Which very 'fishy' book by Richard Flanagan was published in 2001 and won the 2002 Commonwealth Writers' Prize? "The Sound of One Hand Clapping" "The Unknown Terrorist" "Death of a River Guide" "Gould's Book of Fish"